Benchmark solutions and assessment of variable kinematics models for global and local buckling of sandwich struts

Abstract This paper investigates the periodic global buckling and wrinkling of sandwich struts subjected to uniaxial loads. An exact elasticity solution is obtained in the plane strain setting for selected benchmark problems and serves as reference for a systematic assessment of several displacement-based sandwich plate models. The Sublaminate Generalized Unified Formulation is used to generate the algebraic two-dimensional governing equations of the variable kinematics models, for which a Navier-type solution is adopted.

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